Post-apartheid, democratic South Africa – a country with a history of division and separation, as well as reconciliation and integration – has not escaped negative ethnocentric behaviour. That country’s post-1994 transition to social cohesion is in the process of being eroded by identity politics. Identity politics arrived in South Africa around the time of the passing of Nelson Mandela in 2013 and has since caused serious damage to many of the positive gains made towards having a stable, democratic, multicultural society. This essay explores these developments. 

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